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Review Questions
Multiple Choice
Questions 1–3 refer to the following passage:The only way to erect... a Common Power, as may be able to defend them from the invasion
of [foreigners] and the injuries of one another, and thereby to secure them in such sort, as that
by their own industry, and by the fruits of the Earth, they may nourish themselves and live
contentedly is, to confer all their power and strength upon one Man, or upon one Assembly of
men, that may reduce all their Wills, by plurality of voices, unto one Will... and therein to
submit their Wills, everyone to his Will, and their judgments, to his judgment. This is more
than Consent, or Concord; it is a real Unity of them all, in one and the same Person, made by
Covenant of every man with every man, in such manner, as if every man should say to every
man, I Authorize and give up my Right of Governing myself to this Man, or to this Assembly
of men, on this condition, that thou give up thy Right to him, and Authorize all his Actions
in like manner.... [And] being thereby bound by Covenant... cannot lawfully make a new
Covenant, amongst themselves, to be obedient to any other, in anything whatsoever, without
his permission.Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651- Hobbes was an advocate of which form of governance?
A. Absolutism
B. Constitutionalism
C. Socialism
D. Millenarianism - Hobbes proposed a system of government based on which of the following?
A. Conditional consent between the governing and the governed
B. A limited concord between the governing and the governed
C. An unbreakable covenant between the governing and the governed
D. The concept of representational democracy - Hobbes was primarily which of the following?
A. He was an advocate of representative democracy.
B. He was opposed to the deposing of Charles I and the establishment of the
Commonwealth government in England.
C. He was opposed to the centralization of power in government.
D. He was an advocate of an unwritten constitution.
Short Answer- Briefly explain ONE similarity and TWO differences between the English and French
experience of the consolidation of political power in the seventeenth century.
Answers and Explanations- A is correct because the phrases “confer all their power and strength,” “submit their
Wills,” and “I Authorize and give up my Right of Governing myself ” all indicate an
advocacy of absolutism. B is incorrect because the passage makes no mention of limit-
ing the power of the sovereign by a constitution. C is incorrect because the passage
makes no reference to the collectivist principles of socialism. D is incorrect because the
passage makes no reference to the millennial belief in the imminent end of the world.
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